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In Coimbatore City, people from all walks of life are coming together to build toilets in every household. The City is on a construct-a-thon to make itself open defecation free.

As many as 600 volunteers in Mumbai got together and undertook the beautification of Sion Railway Station. And the results are amazing.

A group of civil and structural engineers give probable solutions and talk about the lessons learnt from the Chennai floods.

What started as a small gesture, of feeding underprivileged children, by 31-year-old Darshan and his friends has turned into a full-blown movement.

Members of the Tamil Nadu Home Guards displayed their commitment to duty in a very inspiring way when the city was submerged because of the rains and people were crying out for help.

A group of 5 elders and 40 youth have begun an initiative to provide food to over 400 people by collection and distribution.

While most of us are lamenting about the terrible devastation wreaked by cyclone Hudhud, here are a bunch of volunteers who just came together one fine morning and started restoring order amid the chaos. See how their efforts transformed a stretch of damaged road.

The flash flood disaster that struck Uttarakhand on 16 Jun 2013 had jolted the entire nation. It had emotionally touched many a heart at far off places across the country, and motivated many people to come up with help and positive actions, as we have shared before on our Uttarakhand Diaries series. This is the story of a group of doctors and volunteers from different parts of the country who came together for a noble cause of helping the disaster affected in the Himalayan State of Uttarakhand.

TBI writer Anusha Subramanian is currently in Uttarakhand, participating in the relief operations and assisting the locals in rebuilding their lives. She reports from the scene of the devastating floods on the current situation in the affected areas, on the aid provided by the administration, and the stupendous work being carried out by trekkers, mountaineers, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), army personnel and NGOs.